Gupta Art

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Gupta Art and its influence on the Silk Road
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Ajanta caves exterior view
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Ajanta Cave 19 chaitya hall
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Ajanta caves Buddha flanked by two
Bodhisattvas Gupta period, 4th-6th centuries AD
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Ajanta caves Various sculptures Gupta period
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Buddha teaching his first sermon at Sarnath stone
sculpture Gupta period
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Image of Buddha in the Udayana style Gilded
copper India, 6th century AD
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Image of Buddha in the Udayana style Bronze North
China, 6th century CE
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Painting of Bodhissatva holding a Lotus Ajanta
caves Gupta period
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The God of Silk painted wood panel Dandan-Oilik,
Khotan ca. 6th century AD
Tucker, p. 182
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Hindu deities painted wood panel Dandan-Oilik,
Khotan ca. 6th century CE
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Ganesh painted wood panel Khotan ca. 7th-8th
century CE
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Monkeys terracotta figurines Khotan ca. 6th
century AD
Tucker, p. 183
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The Rat God painted wood panel Dandan-Oilik,
Khotan ca. 6th century AD
Tucker, p. 183
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Mural of jataka story Miran 3rd century AD
Tucker, p. 173
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Bodhisattva wall fresco Dunhuang, cave 272 4th
century AD
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Buddha saving a dove wall fresco Dunhuang, cave
254 5th century AD
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Seated Buddha wall fresco Dunhuang, cave 254 6th
century AD
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Vishnu (Hindu god) wall fresco Dunhuang, cave
285 6th century AD
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Vimalakirti wall fresco Dunhuang, cave 103 8th
century AD
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Ceiling ornamentation showing jeweled
style Dunhuang, caves 285, 393 6th century AD
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Head of Bodhisattva wall fresco Dunhuang, cave
36 10th century AD